UPDATE: Biden did not announce a “climate emergency” in Maui today, we dodged that bullet – for now.
Content of speech follows this introduction.
As you may know, after a week of terrible optics after the Maui wildfire, President Biden was excoriated in news and social media for sitting on the beach, on vacation and making “no comment” to reporters regarding the fire. Even though major news outlets like the LA Times are backing down on the idea that the fire was “climate caused,” and of course there’s no climate component whatsoever, much of the left is still using it as their talking point for why a “climate emergency” should be declared and putting pressure on the White House to do so.
The previous week, Biden had said he “practically declared a climate emergency” in response to hot temperatures in July and other factors, but was excoriated by the left for not actually declaring a climate emergency.
Then there has been the insane pronouncements of “global boiling” from the UN and the fact that their Secretary General has gone off the rails on the “climate emergency” issue. However, once again there appears to be no climate component to our hotter than normal summer, but instead seems have been caused by a lack of clouds, leading to increased sunlight reaching the ground according to this analysis by climatologist Dr. Judith Curry.
But, the left’s mantra has been “never let a good crisis go to waste.” Facts simply don’t matter to them.
Biden made a surprise announcement last week, cutting short his planned vacation in Lake Tahoe with an announcement he’d fly to Maui on Monday the 21st. Thus, it wouldn’t be a surprise to have Biden declare a “climate emergency” on Monday, with the burned ruins of Lahaina, Maui as the backdrop. The optics are perfect for him, and we know how much the White House is all about optics rather than substance.
Biden has already issued a preliminary statement here.
But it seems some Maui residents don’t want him there according to this article in Townhall:
Several residents expressed frustration to the New York Post, saying they would rather Biden not bother visiting after waiting so long to address the fires.
“I don’t want him here,” Lahaina resident Jay Awan said. “He’s just coming to Maui to look good in front of the cameras.”
We’ll see what happens.
What follows is a likely speech (if Biden decides to do it), preemptively written by Anthony Watts and Charles Rotter.
Remarks by President Biden to Tackle the Climate Crisis by Declaring a Climate Emergency
Location: Lahaina, Maui
Date: Monday, August 21, 2023
Ladies and gentlemen, members of the press, and most importantly, the brave residents of Maui,
I stand before you today in the historic town of Lahaina, a place that was once the heart of Hawaiian culture, now tragically scarred by the inferno that nature unleashed. The tragic events here on Maui have not just affected a town or an island but have touched the very soul of our nation. The loss of at least 110 lives, homes destroyed, history erased, and memories turned to ash; these are not just headlines or statistics. These are the heart-wrenching stories of your neighbors, your friends, and your family.
Unusually dry conditions, primed by the unprecedented effects of climate change, laid the groundwork for the wildfires we see today. Our people were left scrambling into the ocean, a desperate act of survival, because land – the very ground beneath their feet – betrayed them in the most horrifying manner. And while the fires may have been contained for now, the broader flame, the burning issue of climate change, rages on unchecked.
For years, scientists and climate advocates have been sounding the alarm. The continuous extraction and use of fossil fuels is not just an environmental issue, but a ticking time bomb that threatens our way of life, our safety, and our very existence. Today, right here in Lahaina, we’ve seen the devastation that this ticking bomb can unleash.
Kaniela Ing, a voice of this community, poignantly stated, “My island is on fire.” This sentiment is echoed across the world, as wildfires choke regions from Canada to Australia, heatwaves suffocate places like Texas, and extreme flooding drowns parts of Europe. It’s not just an island or a town; it’s a planet that’s crying out for help.
It is easy to revert to partisanship in moments of crisis. But the flames that tore through Lahaina did not discriminate based on political affiliation. They consumed indiscriminately. And that’s the nature of the climate crisis we face today – it respects no borders, no parties, no ideologies.
I’ve taken steps to protect public lands, rejoined the Paris climate agreement, and have pushed for a progressive environmental agenda. But the scenes here, as economist Umair Haque pointed out, signify that “practically” declaring a climate emergency is not enough. I’m here today to declare that it’s time for action, not just words.
Today, I want to make a commitment to the people of Maui and to all Americans: I will declare a national climate emergency. We will marshal every resource, every piece of legislation, every ounce of innovation and spirit this nation possesses to fight the looming threat of climate change.
To the skeptics and deniers, I urge you to come here, to see the devastation, to look into the eyes of those who’ve lost everything. This is not a theoretical debate for future generations. This is here. This is now. We can no longer afford to be on the sidelines, we must act now.
I call on Congress, on leaders at every level, and on every American: let’s invest in clean energy, let’s reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, and let’s make a future where our children won’t have to flee into the oceans to escape wildfires.
Thank you, and God bless the resilient people of Maui and the United States of America.
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Note: This entire post, including the posited speech and header image, is entirely political commentary, representing our opinion, not actual events. IF Biden chooses to announce a climate emergency, we expect this will be very close to what he will say.
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Throwing virgins into volcanoes would be as effective for dealing with wildfires as “investing in clean energy”.
That’s the cause of the ‘climate crises’ … not enough virgins !!
Darn it, I knew I and my activities, would be implicated in the Climate Crisis eventually……
jeez groomers everywhere
Only on the climate warrior team
The alarmistas are the ones using truant children with mental issues as their priestess.
The alarmistas are the ones grooming young children in infants school into their AGW cult.
It appears that the only mental skill steve has left, is projection.
What are “jeez groomers”? Oh, I see, lack of punctuation, failing to communicate effectively.
Cobalt.
Creep.
Never let a good/bad virgin go to waste.
Where would Biden find enough virgins?
Biden’s Administration would not be able to stop Biden(s) from changing their V status.
Slick Willie would soon be scampering over the horizon volunteering his aid.
Recycle them by sending them to the Virgin Islands.
Would there be a length of residency requirement before they could reidentify?
Where would dems find virgins? As dems, they are flexible. If madonna and Brittany presented as virgins, who are we to question it?
Well Madonna has been ‘like a virgin’ since the 80’s.
They would mess that up and start throwing Virginians into volcanoes.
I was going to make a joke about marking your essay when the day comes, but how will they ever keep them er… excited kiddies away from Onkel Joe long enough for him to be this verbose?
…and you missed a couple of “…end of statement”s and “…pause”s.
“primed by the unprecedented effects of climate change”
Creepy Crooked Joe Bribem just can’t stop lying, spot on.
And then he and his entourage will take the fossil fueled Air Force One back home.
Confirmed.
“…the brave residents of Maui,”
Given it’s Biden, it’s more likely he’d say
“…the brave residents of Malawi,”
He has enough trouble with English words. Hawaiian should be very interesting.
Lahyena, Malawee
Words is tools … in this case words that hides the truth. The speech is minus one and a quarter lessons when it comes to human ingenuity and engeering, the build back better nonsense between the lines is “horseshoe” chaos based on fear psychosis and the cult of safety that will save us “all”. Every ounce of innovations he say´s … if it wasn´t so tragic I would laugh my “heart” out … but a skeptical question comes to mind after have heard the speech, how many forensic arsonist and other sciencetist when it comes to adress the question about CC may I take with me to Maui – and will we be given the opportunity to adress and communicate the values of uncertainty and the values of freedom of thougths when it comes to science as Richard Feynman put it on the board.
“Words is tools”
Or maybe they are tools.
Not everyone’s’ sharp’s yo’s?
You’re forgetting whose going to be giving this speech. It’ll probably come out something like this…
Euroshire.
LOL!
She’s not that smart.
MolokaiMolotov
Brilliant piece, Marbles!
I am laughing out loud! Thank you. At the end of a busy day at work I needed that.
The main emergency in the USA is the President and his Administration.
Dumping him now would put Harris in that role, a frying pan into the fire sort of move.
We are doomed, I tell you – doomed.
Jason Chaffetz of Fox News just posted an opinion why he thinks Joe won’t run.
The co-authors of the (fake) speech have done a fine job, new careers await you!
I’ll bet two bits Joe could not read this without bungling it. Maybe wife Jill could.
Not so sure Jill wouldn’t mess it up.
She’d probably say something along the lines of, “I love my breakfast tacos with pineapple, but now all the pineapple fields are gone …”
Joe, like all Western leaders, is just saying what the globalist elites want him to
They should issue a ‘loss of trust in our leaders emergency’ because that is real, unlike the manufactured climate debacle
They know they are losing the debate, so WEF bomber command has moved from nudge, to coercion
They will use any self proclaimed emergency powers to ride rough shod through democracy
It will be a shameful declaration of war on its own citizens, a war on personal freedoms and choices, that was secured by the millions who died fighting tyranny in two world wars
It’s odd that you’ve titled the post “EXCLUSIVE” and then only in footnotes mention that it is all fake. Is this an intentional effort to misinform people?
Hint: It’s an Intelligence Test……
Surprised you noticed.
Nice try.
The clearly labeled categories it falls under are “Commentary” and “Politics”.
What you refer to as a “footnote” was a “NOTE”.
If it was an attempt to “intentional effort to misinform people”, there would have been no “Note”.
It should have been at the beginning – Note this is satire not an actual speech of Biden
Much later the Update at the beginning …LOL… said it was an invented speech
Its been a month or more that WUWT has being ‘predicting ‘ Biden would declare a climate emergency …any day now
This is what the climate alarmists do. Fakery all the time
WUWT is just reporting the far-left newspapers
Biden faces calls to declare climate emergency as he heads to Maui – POLITICO
Biden considers issuing climate emergency declaration – The Washington Post
Editorial: Biden says he’s ‘practically’ declared a climate emergency. Why won’t he do it for real? (msn.com)
Was ignoring the quote above an intentional effort to misinform people?
Mr. J: What is not odd is your overreach, to avoid the point of the post. You say a foot note, but you missed the bold statement above the “fake” part. Even Mr. Stokes was not so obtuse as to gaslight with this, so you can tell that to your grandkids (more obtuse than MR. O! you tell your grandkids). As Peta noted in his mercifully short post, you failed the intel test. You obviously don’t perceive what idiot posts like this do when we try to read you down the line.
You just proved that alarmists and their apologists are humor challenged — or should I say, “impaired?”
I don’t think the post was meant to be funny (it was a very bad job of it if so), the point of the post was to stoke the fear of the site’s readership of their “climate emergency” bogeyman.
You’re delusional.
Joey is a used car salesman…that’s his inventory behind him…..trust him that it’s a bargain.
Its a real problem. The level of insanity in genuine pronouncements by the woke on gender, race and climate is so great that when you write what you think is a wild parody, you end up just writing something which is quite plausibly something they might have written in all sincerity.
Its impossible to satirize the climate lunacy, almost any absurd and ridiculous thing you come up with is liable to be said in all sincerity by some activist the next day.
As with this piece, its all too plausible.
My thoughts exactly, but expressed better. I thought, as I finished reading the proposed speech, that Joe Biden could use the entire speech unchanged and his accolytes would think it was his best speech ever.
Indeed. This speech is eerily spot on. Could be written by any number of anti-human, de-growth, totalitarian, globalist climate change zealots anywhere in the world.
Poor AlanJ, trips and fails.,, landing face first in his own BS !
Hilarious. 🙂
He is a Warmist/Alarmist that is why he is chronically clueless.
You didn’t bother to actually read the article, did you?
“What, me worry?” — Alfred E. Newman
We used to reset the failing monetary system with war. While that is not off the table completely,,$400 Tillion of sovereign debt would require a 50%+ reduction the population,, besides wars are a bit messy. Better instead to invoke a world wide invisible boogie man in Climate change, with a trial balloon of UFO/aliens. How better to get people to volunteer to get in the cattle cars than by convincing them its more dangerous to be outside.
Democide is going strong. Were the past 3 years above the mean?
You seem like the kinda guy that causes me to contract beer-maths (1,2,many). Let me settle in, while you explain how debt requires genocide. I know you didn’t come up with that, but i keep asking, maybe one day I’ll hear an answer.
Look on the bright side, when those Irish cows have all been culled and the farmers in Holland are ordered off the land by the EU’s starvation for all department, the people in Hawaii will be protected like never before. No more Irish butter giving them a risk of consuming something wholesome and healthy, and no more of that meat consumption giving rise to sound muscle and brain development.
The good people of Hawaii, can be assured the pointless policies of Climate Alarmists will always be there to do nothing for them.
Aloha Brandon will probably inform that his butt has been wiped
Maybe, but first he had to notice that it needed wiping.
There are several oddities concerning this catastrophe in Maui.
These two seem to be true. Many escaping residents in vehicles were funneled off the highway and onto Front street and then blocked in inhibiting their escape. Water that could have helped in fire fighting was held back. Fire hydrants went dry.
Fire hydrants on a relatively small city on the ocean went dry.
Google:”using seawater in fire hydrants”
And your point is??
An ocean of water mere feet away, but the fire fighters couldn’t find water in a major emergency.
It’s not quite that easy, though.
Getting water from a body of water (i.e. lake, etc) requires a drafting operation. Most urban departments – places with hydrants – aren’t set up for that, and drafting at a beach, with the waves going like they do, would be very difficult if even possible.
Then there’s the potential damage to the pumps, both from the salt and from the sand. Debris in the water could break the pump during operation. THAT would be pretty bad…
Hmm, a permanent pumping station and a regular testing & maintenance program wouldn’t be that difficult to design.
Oh money fer dat? Yeah, but den we gots all a kindza moola fer wind terBINES ‘n soler panels don’t we?
Maybe not the fire fighters, but someone couldn’t find their ass with both hands.
Is that Joey? ……or Robert L. Peters?…..or is it Robin Ware? In any case…FJB! Joey is finished…over….it is just a matter of exactly how he goes down…bye bye.
I think his latest email alias is “Robin U. Craine”
FJB
Just sayin’, probably will get lots of downvotes….but it is unfortunate that “Climate science” has been politicized. Psychology, paleontology, biology, etc haven’t been (except where some link to CC is claimed).
> “Climate science” has been politicized. Psychology, paleontology, biology, etc haven’t been…
Psych & Bio surely have been politicized in the ongoing parallel Gender Wars.
Psych went south back in the late 60’s to early ’70’s.
Why would your comment receive lots of downvotes?
It is a real shame climate science has been politicised, mostly by climate scientists and journalists.
Psychology and biology haven’t been politicized?????
Just how many genders are there these days?
Have you not been reading about how Democrats want to make gender change surgery available to minors, without their parents knowledge?
As too paleontology, I remember a reviewer not too long ago who tried to have a paper rejected because it identified skeletons as male and female. According to the reviewer, this was not legitimate because we don’t know how those individuals would have self identified.
Biology >>> Pregnant Ken!
Words that mean, “I have not declared an emergency”.
his speach should mention that Dodger stdium floods were especially deep this year
Damn that Hilary….
MAGA!
Eng-Lit obviously doesn’t bother with spelling, either. !
or capitalization or punctuation
You need a new keyboard Steven and a spellcheck app
He needs a brain.
Rainfall totals in the LA basin were 2 to 3 inches. Woohoo. I’m impressed. Houston gets that on an ordinary spring or summer day. The highest recorded rainfall total (9.67”) appears to be a localized outlier. Most of the scattered max amounts were about 6” or less, largely in the Angeles and San Bernardino National Forests to the NE of major cities and towns.
I was watching the winds during the storm. Most places had sustained winds of 10-15 mph, with gusts to 25. Good kite weather were it not for the modest rainfall.
In the run-up to the storm, dire predictions abounded, including Mosher’s comment a couple of days back.The media and weather porn channels tried their best to call this an unprecedented disaster, which it was not, even if it had lived up to the hype. When it finally arrived, some locales had some flooding, especially mountain streams, but a disaster it wasn’t. Live storm chasers just showed water flowing (well below flood level) in the concrete lined Los Angeles River. The LA mayor says no deaths were reported.
SNORE! Isn’t it amazing that the predictions get all of the buzz, but everyone quickly forgets and moves on after the real event fails to deliver? Hmm, much like climate models versus actual data.
Most places had sustained winds of 10-15 mph, with gusts to 25
That’s not even a decent Santa Ana…
Excellent! Only one capitalist letter, initial word lower case, two spelling errors, and a perfectly pristine lack of punctuation! Now THAT’S what we expect from a mosh comment.
And supposedly he wrote a book. I’m skeptical.
A monsoon storm wandered unusually far west. Something that has happened at least 3 times in the last 100 years.
Nothing at all unusual. As usual.
The picture needs a caption.
“Bidenomics is working!”
Ha, the old geezer still hasn’t shown up at the East Palestine, OH train wreck site as he promised he would do.
He went to the West Bank, but couldn’t find a train anywhere
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/24/politics/joe-biden-east-palestine/index.html
No plans
No comment!
You forgot the promises. Rebuild better, sustainable, respect for the culture, fossil free community…
Only if that includes the Old Fossil in the Oval Office…
The faux speech doesn’t seem very realistic. There was no mention of his eldest son dying while bravely trying to help future Democratic voters get passed the despicable ‘orange’ floating barrier, with high-speed saw blades, on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande River, and therefore calling for common-sense safety regulations on the use of high-caliber saw blades during this time of what is almost an unprecedented climate emergency.
(OK, I know it is in poor taste, but I couldn’t resist what is obviously a well-deserved ridiculing. If politicians can avoid slander because of their public status, they should be equally prepared to be criticized.)
His son Beau died in a wildfire….
A climate change wildfire, no less, killed Beau. In Iraq.
This is a perfect illustration of the usefulness of climate change/global warming for excuses and deflection. If only White Star Lines had had climate change as an excuse for the sinking of the Titanic.
Somebody give another drink with those little parasols to Mike Mann.
Thanks… and God save the Queen, man!
I’d forgotten about that little Bidenism!
Our admenstration has today decided to take this bold step. Even here, in the tropical Hawaiian paradise, you may see how global warming has brought catastrophe. Vice President Harriot and I will deploy all the powers of the federum government to see that the ravages of climate change are stopped in its tracks. In their tracks. We will not stop the creeping global monster by acting in stits and farts… fits and tarts… tits… Instead we will go all in. Right, Camillion? Gimme five.